The Tralee Blog

The newly formed All Ireland Air Ambulance - a charity planning to provide dedicated air rescue services - held a first publicity demonstration on the helipad of Tralee General Hospital today. While the helicopter they showed is not at all a new machine (see below for details) the efforts of the people involved in the action are most welcome and everybody living in the often rugged southwest of Ireland will be glad about any new means for providing medical aid quickly whenever needed. [»]

I want to take the opportunity to thank all the readers of tralee.org and of this blog for their interest and contributions in the pages and to wish them and everybody a happy new year 2009! It is almost certainly going to be a challenging year for quite a lot of people around the world, but hopefully it will be a good and healthy year for many. [»]

After a severe weather warning issued by Met Éireann for today the weather turned out to be very windy indeed. The picture shows the damaged disused fuel filling station at fairies cross in Tralee. Thankfully nobody got injured and the friendly Gardaí took care of the traffic and the people passing by while the loose ceiling was getting fixed. The picture was taken less than fifteen minutes before writing this post and the storm is still roaring outside…

Although the annual Tralee Garden Festival will not start before the next weekend the town already is in full flower. Thanks to the great work of the town council and the many volunteers who paricipated in the latest acts of guerilla gardening there are now flowers in many places all over the town. The probably most impressive new feature is the new flower bed in Denny Street right in front of the pikeman monument, one of the most vibrant places of the town. [»]

Tralee Town Park will soon be the tranquil place it used to be, to be honest it will indeed even be much better than before. With the  huge success of the new extensive playground area and after months of work at new pathways and water features, the first new fountain has finally been in operation when I visited the park today. Maybe it was the first time ever they switched it on. [»]